Finance Business Advisor Wholesale Banking

**Finance Business Advisor Wholesale Banking - Internship**

**Internship - Full-time - Brussels - English**

**Bachelor’s/Master’s degree**

**Introduction**

Within **Finance Business Advice** (FBA) we are looking for an intern to assist our team. Our crew is perfectly situated to financially navigate the business through a rapidly changing banking environment with rising interest rates, high inflation, and a challenging geopolitical environment. We are looking for someone that takes ownership and makes it happen, that has an enthusiasm for helping others to be successful and the capability for always being a step ahead. In return, we offer personal growth & interesting internship, an open and dynamic environment, and a progressive and forward-looking mentality.

**Role & work environment**

Within Finance Business Advice, the team is the cornerstone for financial insights and advice for Wholesale Banking. The Wholesale segment provides a wide range of financial services and products to support our corporate and institutional clients, which range from Payment & Cash Management services (PCM) to complex financial products. The finance business adviser is a pro-active partner empowering the teams with valuable information and advice on both strategic and day-to-day themes, like for example financially navigating our business colleagues through the current changing interest rate environment and what the impact of structural high inflation will be on the business performance.

You will join a young and dynamic team that provides regular reporting and advice to senior management, while also maintaining relationships with various other internal stakeholders. Your role is to help the team engage with the respective products
- and sector leads on what the business environment means financially and how they can act accordingly. You will be their financial compass This will put you in the passenger seat for the forecasting process and for providing ad-hoc support, sometimes on business cases for new or existing products. In addition to supporting the finance business advisors in their day-to-day work, which will enable you to gain an in-depth understanding of a bank's business in the wholesale banking sector, you will be responsible for initiatives thought up by the team to improve product profitability and the accuracy of information.

Together we will foster a way of working driven by our values with “our data is **always right**” at the core. We take **ownership**, we have the **expertise**, we communicate **clearly** and easily, and we **challenge** and **advise**.

**Key responsibilities**

**Carrying out exciting initiatives specifically designed to challenge you**
- Making a success of a project to understand and optimize the costs of all wholesale banking products to improve the bank's overall profitability
- Development of close collaboration between the Luxembourg & Belgium finance team

**Help to provide financial result presentations, analyses and advice to relevant stakeholders**
- Ensure high quality, first-time right deliverables
- Actively develop relationships with the business and act as a trusted advisor by supporting the business/ product leads with strategic analysis to steer the business
- Proactively look for ways to improve the content and format, keeping it relevant in the current fast-changing environment

**Be involved in the overall budgeting and forecasting process**
- Be responsible for providing accurate forward-looking financial plans for a broad range of products
- Play a strong role in challenging and aligning with stakeholders on financial developments within their respective products/sectors

**Play an active role in the FBA department**
- Work on overarching projects which cover the full bank (e.g., cost allocation)
- Actively work and think along in the team to look for possible efficiencies in our processes and to improve business-relevant insights

**We look for**

A student, able to integrate quickly into a dynamic team with a** talent for taking it on and making it** **happen, **who will bring fresh ideas to the table, has a strong strategic compass and is able to embrace challenges in a fast-changing and complex environment. You are a naturally curious and collaborative person who listens and invests in others to achieve common goals. You love to challenge the status quo and are eager to propose creative solutions to problems.

**To become an FBA intern, you will also need**:

- A minimum 3-month internship is a part of your academic curriculum
- An analytical mind and intellectual curiosity that you combine with a sincere interest in banking and market developments
- A proactive and autonomous attitude that translates into flexibility when deadlines are due
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) in English
- At least a basic knowledge of Excel/Powerpoint

**We offer you**

A clear **purpose** and a unique offer:

- Initial experience in a dynamic W